The opportunity
At Gusto, we're on a mission to grow the small business economy. We handle the hard stuff — payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR — so owners can focus on their craft and their customers.
What you'll do
Support the execution of Gusto's compensation programs and cycles, including: merit, promotion, and equity refresh, handling data preparation, validation, tracking, and follow-through.
Serve as a first point of contact for compensation questions from HRBPs,: recruiters, and managers, resolving requests and escalating the ones that need extra attention.
Manage annual compensation cycles (merit, equity refresh, benchmarking) from: data collection through communication.
Conduct job matching and market benchmarking using survey data (Radford/Aon,: Mercer, Pave) and prepare recommendations on pay ranges and offer positioning for review.
Model and prepare new hire, promotion, and internal transfer recommendations: against approved bands and internal equity comparisons.
Maintain compensation data integrity across Workday, Pave, and our: compensation bands, running recurring audits and reconciling discrepancies before they reach downstream processes.
What they're looking for
- Prepare recurring reports and dashboards on pay positioning, band: utilization, and cycle progress, and produce ad hoc analysis for partners across People and Finance.
- Use AI tools and automation to take manual work out of recurring analysis,: audits, and reporting, with sound judgment about when output needs to be validated.
- Support compliance with federal, state, and local pay regulations, including: pay transparency postings, FLSA classification reviews, and annual survey submissions.
- Document and improve compensation processes so that the work is repeatable,: auditable, and not dependent on any one person's memory.